Another week, another drabble. This one is short and bittersweet.
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Temporary
The pain was always there, a hollow aching in her very soul. Ever since he left, it felt like a piece of her had been missing. She wanted, needed something to fill the hole left in her and erase the pain.
She was hesitant to turn to her teammate, for even though he was just as devastated as she, she didn't wanted to hurt him more by crushing him with false hopes of a future relationship. This was just to ease the grief, to make them both forget for a while.
She was clear in what she wanted, looking down at the ground with uncharacteristic shyness while making her request. She needed human touch, to be near someone, and she knew the blonde shinobi could give that to her. She explained it would be temporary but he accepted anyway, either eager for anything she offered him or because he too was overcome by the same consuming pain of losing the person that had made them whole.
At first he was a little clumsy and unsure as he lowered her onto the cool sheets, exploring her skin hesitantly as if he were afraid touching her too hard would earn him a black eye or she would simply kick him out of her apartment, but with encouragement he soon grew bolder, finding the places that made her hot and flushed, places she hadn't even known existed.
In those precious moments, she didn't think about Sasuke, just their skin and sweat and pleasure as he made love to her like he had always dreamed of doing. But then, as they lay exhausted and panting, shaking fingers entwined, his face resurfaced, haunting her. She could never really banish the pain, only mask it with something that wasn't real.
Some things just couldn't be erased.